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Mars: Cydonia face

author: Nasa/JPL/MSSS/Novapix

reference: a-mar06-00001

Image Size 300 DPI: 20 * 20 cm

Viking orbiter images acquired in 1976 showed that one mars feature looked somewhat like a human face. A high-resolution view was targeted with Mars Global Surveyor on April 8, 2001. On that date at 20:54 UTC (8:54 p.m., Greenwich time zone), the MGS was rolled 24.8° to the left so that it was looking at the 'face' 165 km to the side from a distance of about 450 km. The resulting image has a resolution of about 2 meters (6.6 feet) per pixel. The large 'face' picture covers an area about 3.6 kilometers (2.2 miles) on a side. Sunlight illuminates the images from the left/lower left.

Keywords for this photo:

2001 - ASTRONOMY - BLACK AND WHITE - CYDONIA - FACE - MARS - MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR - PLANET - SHADOW -